After partnering with Mikki Daughtry in 2012, they adapted the Jack Kilborn action-horror novel Afraid, and in 2013, their spec script Elsewhere made the Black List (a survey of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays, as voted on by more than 250 studio execs).[2]

In January 2017, Iaconis and Daughtry sold a pitch for Five Feet Apart, a young adult-themed pitch to CBS Films for Justin Baldoni to produce and direct.[11] In January 2018, it was announced that Cole Sprouse would be playing a lead role in the film (making it the first film role of his adult career), and that Academy Award-winner Cathy Schulman would be producing.[12] In April 2018, it was announced that Haley Lu Richardson and Moises Arias joined the cast.[13][14] The film commenced principal photography in May 2018[15] and has a release date of March 15, 2019.[16] A novel based upon the screenplay, written by Rachael Lippincott, was published by Simon & Schuster on November 20, 2018, [17] and became a New York Times Best Seller.[18]

In November 2017, Iaconis and Daughtry were included in The Young and Hungry List 2017 (a list of Hollywood's top 100 new writers).[19]